Our aim is to help you become a better CFD trader. We're passionate about online CFD trading, constantly innovating our platform and product offering so you can get the most out of the financial markets and CFD trading.

Competitive pricing

We offer competitive and reliable pricing, with tight spreads and low margins^. Trade CFDs on key FX pairs like EUR/USD from 0.7 points, 1 point on major indices like the UK 100, and 0.3 points on Gold. Our margin rates start from 3.3% for FX and 5% for index CFDs.

More opportunities

CFD trading offers you the ability to diversify your portfolio, with leveraged trading on a huge range of forex, indices, commodities and treasuries.

Over 30 years' experience

Since launching in 1989, we've become one of the world's leading CFD trading and spread betting providers. As one of the industry’s pioneers, you can be confident that when you're trading CFDs with us, you're trading with one of the best in the business.

Intuitive platform

Our unique online CFD trading platform, Next Generation, has already won multiple awards and we’re consistently working on new functionality, products and tools to enhance your CFD trading experience.

Multiple award-winners

We've won over 200 awards worldwide – a recognition of the quality of our service, and dedication to delivering innovation and technology through our web-based trading platform and native mobile apps.

98% of calls answered in under 20 seconds

When there's a market open, we are too

What is CFD trading?

What are CFDs?

A CFD is a cash-settled leveraged product that tracks the price movement of a financial market, such as indices, forex, commodities, shares and treasuries. A key feature of trading leveraged products is that as you only have to put down a small deposit for a much larger market exposure, and as such it has the potential to magnify profits as well as losses.

When you trade CFDs, you don’t buy or sell the underlying asset or product. Instead, you speculate on whether the price of that product will rise or fall. We offer CFDs on thousands of global instruments and you can buy or sell a number of units depending on whether you think prices will go up or down.

For every point the price moves in your favour, you gain multiples of the number of units you have bought or sold. For every point the price moves against you, you make a loss.

Why trade CFDs with CMC Markets

Access thousands of global CFD instruments

Practise on our award-winning Next Generation platform and mobile apps

Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 78% of retail investor accounts lose money when spread betting and/or trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.

CMC Markets UK plc (173730) and CMC Spreadbet plc (170627) are is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.

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